Amnesty scheme for undocumented migrants in Ireland

Undocumented when they've settled and irregular while on the move.

I did thanks, but thanks to others and 100% privately paid for rehabilitation I’m back up and practically running again…

but I’ll never forget this cesspit of a country, first and only time I ever needed a dig out having paid my dues / taxes for 20 years… drove past baleskin and their hotel accommodation on my trips to the ‘private’ gym I used hmmm.

I remember asking the state physio if there could be a grant I’d be entitled to to go towards buying a treadmill or cross trainer, how she laughed…

But circa 50 million of our money per annum made available to assist complete non tax paying strangers…..ensure their comfort and wellbeing ? Ok, then the cost of amnesty on top… money, education, healthcare, travel, housing for people breaking the law…. Geeee thanks Ireland !!! You have become a cesspit where a land of 1000 welcomes has become that and a land of tens of millions of giveaways

... and where we continued to give away over €600m during the height of the recession. Borrowing money and paying interest to give it away!

Working/welfare class depending on what part of it you mean. The closer you get to Darndale, the more of the latter you encounter. The side closer to Beaumont is a bit better. Northside SC seems to be the dividing line.

Lived there unfortunately for years myself at one point.

I'm surprised that 3300 since October even made the news!

I see on the journal they have more pressing concerns- 20%!! of the staff signed an objection to a new catering crowd getting the gig of running the cafe in the national gallery. The problem being they also do the catering in a few direct provision centres.

Today we got an update on the story that a couple of artists have withdrawn their works in protest.

Can we possibly get a third article on the same non event?

The government are morons guided by NGOs they helped create, who are afraid of any criticism.

They spend what we want and to hell with the consequences approach they have to this is echoed across many areas of Irish politics but its specifically laid bare here.

Zero long term thinking, zero plan, just an ever increasing burden on the taxpayer to avoid making hard decisions or being seen as a "bad guy/girl/person"

And there is zero alternative

55bn, Jaysus. I haven't heard one word about costs of ours.

And theirs was only for 6 months, after which you had to be in employment and have a legal permit. Theirs makes sense to be to be fair

With a domestic housing shortage and the effects of such seemingly open-ended provision for undocumented/illegal/refugee/asylum-seeker immigrants (I don't know what the accepted PC description to-day is), we are heading for some very nasty reaction from those who feel that immigrants are depriving natives of housing. They may be totally wrong, but starry-eyed liberals seem to be incapable of appreciating the inevitable backlash.

I am not approving of any backlash, I just want to avoid it.

You have construed what I wrote as a "rant". It wasn't: I was fearful of a nasty backlash against well-intentioned but naive policies.

If that's your idea of a rant, well I give up.